After Jia Yapeng left, Yamauchi suddenly turned to Shigeru Miyamoto and asked, "Miyamoto Kun, are all the young people nowadays so arrogant?"
"I'm not too sure about this, but the new employees in the company are quite obedient!" Shigeru Miyamoto said with a bitter smile.
"Then do you think this Jia Yapeng has the ability to sell 1 million copies of the game?" Yamauchi asked again.
"If it's just the quality of the Pokemon game, selling 1 million copies is not a problem. The key is Jia Yapeng's channels. I don't believe that Jia Yapeng has the ability to sell a million copies in Japan without the support of Nintendo's channels. This is almost an impossible task! "Miyamoto Shigeru said." That's right.
"That's true!" Yamauchi nodded.
As the absolute ruler of the domestic video game industry, Nintendo has an extremely terrifying influence in the entire video game industry. As long as Nintendo says a word, all the stationery stores, bookstores, and video game stores will not dare to sell banned products.
Most importantly, all the video game magazines will not mention a single word about the game, or even give a negative review. Even Pokemon will not be able to rise under Nintendo's ban. This is Nintendo's confidence. In the video game industry, Nintendo is the absolute king.
"Well, it seems like we have to let this kid understand why Nintendo is Nintendo!" Yamauchi snorted and said, "Only then will he return to the negotiating table and have a good talk with us!"
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"Why? Why is Nintendo so shameless? " Coming out of Nintendo's company, Masashi Tajiri looked at Nintendo's luxurious building and couldn't help but speak with resentment.
Masashi Tajiri originally thought that Nintendo was the heaven of video games. Although Nintendo was very strict, its strictness brought about high-quality games, so Masashi Tajiri had a good impression of Nintendo.
However, after seeing Nintendo as a video game developer, Masashi Tajiri's good impression of Nintendo was completely shattered.
"This is normal!" Jia Yapeng said with an indifferent expression. "When they see something good, they will do everything they can to get it. After all, Nintendo is a capitalist, and capitalists eat people! "
"President, if I didn't have your money behind me today, my hard work would have definitely been taken away by Nintendo!" Masashi Tajiri sighed, and his eyes revealed a look of fear.
"This kid, you understand this world at a young age!" Boss Jia smiled slightly in his heart. In the other world, Tajiri Satoshi only understood this matter after several generations of Pokemon had been sold and Nintendo had taken over the control of the company. Unfortunately, the entire company was already under Nintendo's control at that time, and there was nothing he could do to reverse the situation.
"President, why do I feel like Nintendo is deliberately targeting us?" Tajiri looked at Jia Yapeng with a puzzled expression. "Nintendo rarely does such things to other game companies!"
"That's because Yamauchi Tajiri is too cunning, and his eyes are too sharp. I'm afraid he has already vaguely realized the importance of Pokemon!" Boss Jia laughed. "But it doesn't matter. He should be regretting it now. As long as we sell the one million copies of the game, we will give him a fatal blow, and he will understand the right attitude to cooperate with us. He will return to the negotiation table!"
"But can we really sell the one million copies of the game?" Masashi Tajiri asked worriedly. "We have already spent 1.7 billion yen. What if it all goes down the drain? What should we do?"
"Don't worry, I have already set the trap. We are just waiting for someone to jump in!" Boss Jia said calmly, and then looked at Nintendo's towering building.
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"Interesting Gaming News: Preview of Final Fantasy 6"
On the second day, there was an additional piece of news in the new issue of Fami.
There was nothing wrong with the news itself. There were all kinds of preview of new games in the magazine, and the readers were already used to it.
However, there was a very interesting story in the news report.
That was when the producer of Final Fantasy 5, Sakaguchi Hironobu, told a joke during an interview. He said that there was a game that took the initiative to compete with Final Fantasy 5. He even promised that the sales would exceed that of Final Fantasy 5. Otherwise, everyone would dress up as women and sell game cartridges in Akihabara.
However, after half a month of sales, the total number of copies sold was less than 1,000. There was no specific data. It was a joke.
In this era, dressing up as women was not as common as it was in the future. In this era, dressing up as a woman was definitely something that attracted people's attention.
Therefore, many readers began to pay attention to this matter. They were curious about this game company and the game that was so daring.
However, Sakaguchi Hironobu seemed to have some integrity. He did not directly mention the company and the game in the news report. Instead, the editor gave some clues.
He said that it was a game that was released in May, and there was a monster in the name.
There were not many GB games released on May 1st, and there was only one with a monster in it. Therefore, the players quickly found out that this game should be called Pokemon.
However, at this time, it was only the players' guess. Without concrete evidence, Sakaguchi Hironobu could not directly say the real name of the game. Otherwise, it would seem too stingy.
He thought that this matter would be left unsettled by the speculation of individual players. Unexpectedly, in more than a dozen mainstream newspapers that were released the next day, covering basically all of Fusang, a company bought a page of these newspapers at the same time and wrote a sentence on it: "Mr. Sakaguchi, we are waiting for your apology."
"What's going on?" The audience who saw this newspaper was stunned. Then, when they turned the page, they saw a detailed news report.
This detailed news report described how the president of the Chinese company that made the Rocket Team game, Tajiri Satoshi, met the producer of Final Fantasy, Sakaguchi Hironobu, at a game review meeting at Nintendo.
Then, Sakaguchi Hironobu mocked Tajiri Satoshi for being a thief, which made Tajiri Satoshi cry in anger. Then, Tajiri Satoshi challenged Sakaguchi Hironobu to a game to teach him a lesson.
The whole article could be said to be written with one climax after another, and it was deeply moving.
At the beginning, it described Tajiri Satoshi's childhood story. It said that Tajiri Satoshi was a natural game master, and he created a perfect game guide based on his passion.
However, he was misunderstood by Nangong Meng's people, who thought that he stole the relevant game production information. As a result, Tajiri Satoshi was misunderstood and insulted by the entire industry. In the end, he swore to prove himself and developed Pokemon with the strength of more than a dozen employees.
Then, it was the story of the bet.
At the end of the article, it said that although the current sales of Pokemon were less than 1,000 copies, Tajiri Satoshi would never give up. He said that he always believed that his work was a world-class work, and he always believed that sooner or later, he would surpass the sales of the 54000 copies of Final Fantasy 5 in exchange for a public apology from Sakaguchi Hironobu in the newspaper.
Such a story that was full of emotions and strong enough to withstand all the pressure and slander naturally attracted the attention of all the readers.
More than a dozen mainstream newspapers in the country reported at the same time, and it completely blew up the news.
Well, although the upper left corner of the pages of these newspapers all had the word "advertisement", indicating that this was an advertisement page.
However, most readers would not care about this. They would only be moved by Tajiri Satoshi's story.
Then, in the next three to four days, almost all the newspapers began to report the story of Tajiri Satoshi and the Pokemon behind him. At the same time, they began to quietly and indirectly criticize Sakaguchi Hironobu.
Of course, these were all advertising pages. Boss Jia spent more than 30 million yen to buy three to four days of high-intensity reports.
And the facts proved that these reports were very useful. At least Tajiri Satoshi's story had become a well-known story.
And Sakaguchi Hironobu could not sit still.
He originally thought that it would be over after he complained in the magazine, but he did not expect that the next day, the newspapers were full of reports about this matter.
Overnight, the whole world seemed to know about him, Sakaguchi Hironobu. Even Sakaguchi Hironobu's parents in Hokkaido specially called him, asking him to be a kind person and not bully a child like this.
On the third day, the board of directors personally came to him and asked him to find a way to clarify the rumors outside and not ruin the company's image.
Sakaguchi Hironobu could not sit still. He immediately published a rebuttal in the newspaper, saying that Tajiri Satoshi had indeed stolen the information back then.
For this, he also found Nangong Meng's people to testify.
As soon as the rebuttal was published, the national media coverage became even more intense. After Nangong Meng testified, Tajiri Satoshi made a statement on the spot, saying that he absolutely did not steal any information related to Nangong Meng. In order to prove his innocence, he was willing to accept a court investigation.
Moreover, he asked Nangong Meng to produce evidence to prove that he had stolen. Otherwise, it would be a false accusation and slander of his reputation.
This made Nangong Meng completely dumbfounded. She was just expressing her support. Why did she suddenly have to go to court?
This also completely made all the media outlets go crazy. There was no big news recently, so this was the best news. Even some media outlets that Jia Yapeng did not pay for began to report this matter.
And these media outlets that did not pay for it took a different approach. In order to pursue higher attention, they no longer only paid attention to Tajiri Satoshi's incident. They began to desperately dig up some of the dirty things behind Nangong Meng, such as sexual harassment in the office, or the second-generation rich CEO, plagiarizing the game theme of the same game in the United States, and so on.
However, thanks to these reports, Tajiri Satoshi began to quickly win the favor of more people, and more people began to be willing to believe Tajiri Satoshi.
The reason was very simple. When two criminal suspects stood together, one was a young and hardworking person who worked hard to resist pressure, and the other was a scumbag who had a lot of bad records behind him. Who do you think the audience would be willing to believe?
Even if Tajiri Satoshi did plagiarize, everyone would obviously be more willing to believe the weak Tajiri Satoshi.
As a result, Tajiri Satoshi became more and more popular in the world. His bet with Sakaguchi Hironobu also attracted more and more attention. Naturally, everyone was very curious about this challenge, the Pokemon game of Final Fantasy 5.
What was even more amazing was that no one was able to buy Pokemon on the market because Nintendo had removed Pokemon from the market!
This was a proper opening to a novel about not bullying a poor young man!
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